| Edmund Burke - 1803 - 366 halaman
...CLEAR.NESS AND OBSCURITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and auother to make it affecting to the imagination. If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a land. ..Vol.. I. ,, M fcape, fcape, I prefent a very clear idea of thofe objects ; butthen (allowing... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 halaman
...the last degree. OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCURITt WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear ide* of those objects ; but then (allowing for the effect of imitation,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1817 - 516 halaman
...impression, however, may be great ; for, as an ingenious author has well observed, it is one thing te make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; ind the imagination may be strongly affected, and, in fact, often is so, bj •bjects of which we... | |
| Paul METHUEN (Baron Methuen.) - 1819 - 236 halaman
...warrant us! what features!! As YOU LIKE IT. April 1, 1816. MR. Burke very justly observes, that it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination. Our Noble Orator seems so fully aware of this fact, that throughout all his most finished discourses,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 halaman
...indistinct, the impression, however, may be great; for as an ingenious author has well observed, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination; and the imagination may be strongly affected, and, in fact, often is so, by objects of which we have... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1820 - 388 halaman
...indistinct, the impression, however, may he great ; for as an ingenious author has well ohserved, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may he strongly affected, and, in fact, often is so, hy ohjects of which we have... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1826 - 320 halaman
...inilistinct, the impression, however, may he great ; for as art ingenious author has well ohserved, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination ; and the imagination may he strongly affecled, and, in fact, often is so, hy ohjects of which we have... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 halaman
...degree, SECT. IV.— OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CLEARNESS AND OBSCDRITY WITH REGARD TO THE PASSIONS. IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to...If I make a drawing of a palace, or a temple, or a landscape, I present a very clear idea of those objects: but then (allowing for the effect of imitation,... | |
| Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 halaman
...object indistinct, yet the impression may be great ; for, as Mr. Burke has ingeniously observed, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another, to make it affecting to the imagination. Thus, almost all the descriptions given us of the appearances of supernatural beings, carry some sublimity,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 halaman
...indistinct, the impression, however, may be great; for as an ingenious author has well observed, it is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination; and the imagination may be strongly affected, and, in fact, often is so, by objects of which we have... | |
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